Support Worker

**Adverts**:
Coquet Trust have full time vacancies for Support Workers to provide **person centred support to adults with learning disabilities**. We are looking for individuals who share our values being **committed, reliable, inspirational, trustworthy and inclusive**.

We value our staff and offer **full paid training, £70+ sleep-in rate**, **sick pay**, **additional leave with service, pension contribution,** **paid DBS check**, and Blue light card accessing a range of discounts.

**This role**

We have Full Time positions in the Newcastle, Northumberland and North Tyneside areas for our Outreach team, supporting different individuals with 3 to 8 hour sessions.

Staff will need to be hands on providing support to different individuals in their own home and supporting them with activity and independent living skills or supporting them to some appointments. Shifts are between 8am - 7pm.

**What we are looking for in you**

This role would suit someone that enjoys providing a caring and inspiring environment for the people we support by ensuring they have regular activities and social outings.

The people we support at this location enjoy music / swimming / community groups / going for walks and you would have the outgoing and energetic personality to encourage that.

You’ll be passionate about making a difference to the lives of people we support. This will include developing community links and relationships, supporting people with activities and appointments, and assisting with managing their home for example cleaning.

You will need basic IT skills, and we will provide the required training to support you in role.

Driving is an advantage, but not essential.

What would you be doing?

As an Outreach Support Worker you would have a varied role, supporting individuals with a range of disabilities. You would be responsible for:

- Encouraging independence
- Supporting people to participate in hobbies, activities and the community
- Supporting people to manage their health needs and liaising with health professionals.
- Supporting people to manage their own homes.
- Developing the life skills of the people we support
- Assisting with personal finances
- Supporting with medication
- Providing advice and problem solving when required.

What you get from us

£10.50 per hour.

We also offer the following benefits:

- A comprehensive induction period and **full training (paid)**
- Enhanced **sick pay** scheme
- **DBS Checks paid** for by the Trust
- Discounts such as Blue Light card
- 28 days annual leave pro rata, (inc Bank Holiday allowance), increasing with service.
- Full PPE is provided by the Trust

If you are interested in a Support Worker role, but these specifics don’t quite match you, we’d still like to see your CV so you can be considered for any other vacancies that arise.

**Who we are**:
Coquet Trust are a registered charity set up in 1995, in the North East of England, to provide support to people with a learning disability to enable them to live as independently as possible. We have grown steadily ever since launch and now provide support to over 150 people and work with four local authority areas in the north east.

We believe in championing the right of disabled people to live, work, socialise and participate in the community, free of discrimination and unnecessary boundaries. Our mission is to ensure the people we support should live a full and meaningful life where they are listened to and valued. Our vision is a society where everyone has equal access to the same rights and opportunities.

We will work innovatively to ensure that we provider the support that needed to promote people’s independence and help fulfill their aspirations. We strive to make a difference in the quality of the lives of the people we support and their families. We tailor support to meet their chosen outcomes.

We are driven by our values;
**Committed - Reliable - Inspirational - Trustworthy - Inclusive**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £10.50 per hour

Physical setting:

- Homecare

Shift:

- 10 hour shift
- 12 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Newcastle: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

- Do you hold a full UK driving licence, and own a car you can use for work?

Shift availability:

- Day shift (required)

Work Location: In person